And Mr Shaw added that if the comedian awoke in the dead of night to find that
she turned away from him in the bed, he would wake her and criticise her for
having turned her back to him”.

The prosecution at St Albans Crown Court said Collins harassed his girlfriend
during their nine-month relationship last year.

The jury of nine women and three men heard that Collins, who came to fame with
Channel 4’s The Friday Night Project, made Ms Larke, 38, close her email,
Facebook and Twitter accounts after reading her messages.

Mr Shaw said: “The main part of that relationship was characterised by this
defendant exerting control over her, verbally abusing her and physically
assaulting her.”

“Significantly, Mr Collins resorted to compiling a dossier in the form of a
Pukka Pad notebook.

“The purpose of the notebook was to list every sexual experience with every
one of Ms Larke’s previous lovers or partners.

“He would ask her questions and then write it down.”

Mr Shaw said Ms Larke, a video games public relations worker and recovering
alcoholic, tried to help the defendant get anger management therapy and sent
him a link to a domestic violence course.

The barrister said: “He would call her a slag and a filthy whore and similar
derogatory terms.

“He once told her she was riddled with STDs.”

One entry in the pad referred to a man who expressed a desire to slap the
victim which she allowed but found unpleasant and did not want to repeat.

Mr Shaw said: “Once, when the defendant lost his temper with Ms Larke, he
slapped her in the face.

“He told her in effect that she must like it in a sexual way because she had
allowed a previous boyfriend to do so.

On a trip to Miami in March 2011, Collins grabbed his partner’s hair and
pulled her to the floor, the barrister said.

“He pinned her down and spat in her face.

In May that year, Collins returned home from filming abroad and was “angry”
that Ms Larke had only managed to attend one Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
that day rather than two.

“He wanted to know what she had been doing while he was away and accused her
of infidelity,” said Mr Shaw.

“He was slapping her and she was forced to flee the flat screaming for help.”

Collins was also said to have assaulted Ms Larke in June 2011.

He went to collect her in his car and got angry when she was not where he
expected her to be, it was alleged.

“He threw a sat nav at her and pulled her hair and yanked her head back,” said
Mr Shaw.

On July 2 the couple visited a pub and Collins told Ms Larke to put her arm
around him, the court heard.

Ms Larke pointed out a younger couple hugging and said she wanted to be held
in the same way.

Collins accused her of “fancying the man”, Mr Shaw said.

Later, back at their house, a row ensued and Ms Larke recorded it.

Clips were played in which Collins is heard shouting: “You f***** up at the
pub. When you’re f****** with me, you look at the f****** ground, you look
at a tree, you look at a bench, you look at any f****** inanimate object,
you do not look at any other f****** human being, you slag, do you
understand?”

In the recording, Collins accuses Ms Larke of being “very promiscuous” and
having had 50 lovers.

At one point he states she had unprotected sex “on a train with different
ethnicities”.

The couple met while Collins was still married. Ms Larke helped him move from
Bristol to Kew, south west London, in January 2011, and she moved in with
him.

Collins, of Kew, west London, denies a single count of putting a person in
fear of violence by harassment between January and August 2011.

In his police interview, Collins denied ever assaulting Ms Larke “other than slapping
her cheek to calm her when she’d been self-harming”.

Collins, who appeared in the West End musical Rock Of Ages, told detectives that
Ms Larke was the possessive one in the relationship.